UFO Sightings in the 1970s
3,165 UFO sightings reported during the 1970s, peaking in 1978 (441 reports); most often described as disk.
- Total sightings
- 3,165
- Span
- 1970–1979
- Peak year
- 1978 (441 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Disk
1970–1979 · peak 1978 (441 reports)
Orlando · FL, USA
Large disc shaped with light panels around the edge of this disc
South Boston · MA, USA
South Boston by Edison Co Silver Disc colors around the bottom stayed about 10 Mins.
Silverthorne · CO, USA
a light appeared to my left and a metalic object suddenly appeared, saucer shaped
Memphis · TN, USA
Bright white light in rural area of Memphis in 1976 responds to kid's and their sealed beam flashlight.
Leakey · TX, USA
1976 observation in W.Texas of 3 rapidly moving lights at very high alt. moving in a way that wouldn't be possible for man made craft
Pine City · MN, USA
stargazers looking at a beautiful sky full of stars on a perfectly clear night, wittness several craft buzzing over Cross lake. One cra
Bucyrus · OH, USA
2 conical-shaped objects 'zipped' arond the moon. Each object appeared to be an elongated return module.
St. Charles · MO, USA
On the night in question, my best friend Richard C. Bean & I were camping outside my parents townhouse in St. Charles Mo. We had star w
Leominster · MA, USA
Bright beam of light with faint sound.
Bokchito · OK, USA
round, luminous, pulsating object with dull places moving across the southwestern horizon then vanished 7/76
Greenup · KY, USA
2 brilliant lights a few seconds apart, unbelievable speed no trail stopped like hitting a wall and made a 90 degree turn to the south
Hampton · NH, USA
FInally come to grips with this one....but when I was about 8 yrs....my family was taken and examined.....however, i beleive that i was
Iowa City · IA, USA
9 stars in the summer sky,
Tucson · AZ, USA
Large metallic disc over central Tucson in thunderstorm.
London (UK/England) · United Kingdom
5 objects travelling in formation London, England 1976.
Roseville · MN, USA
Saw something extraordinary
New Gulf · TX, USA
we were driving around town.there is a golf course and one of the holes is close to the road.when all of a suuden as we were passing by
Newbury Park · CA, USA
I saw what appeared to be the lights of a plane that seemed to be going to crash nearby which then became a swirling mass of light and
Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico
A strange red light moving side to side
Durham · FL, USA
Stealth craft at night
Warren · MI, USA
It shot up and out of sight
Brevard · NC, USA
Saw two star-like objects, one bluish, theother orange, remain stationary for at least 5 minutes, then, in sequence and at about a 2 mi
Casper · WY, USA
UFO Sighting in Casper, Wy. in summer of 1976
Kit Carson · CO, USA
Black and silver cylindrical object at very close range.
Warwick · NY, USA
UFO sighting? Unbelievable expierience!